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How many subsets of at least one element does a set of seven elements have?

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  • n=7 elemens

total subsets

  • 2^n
  • 2⁷
  • 128
User Pablo Cantero
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For each subset it can either contain or not contain an element. For each element, there are 2 possibilities. Multiplying these together we get 27 or 128 subsets. For generalisation the total number of subsets of a set containing n elements is 2 to the power n.

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